Why shouldn't I believe him? See for yourself:
From Allahpundit.
Why shouldn't I believe him? See for yourself:
From Allahpundit.
It has been obvious for sometime, but it's just now so unavoidably in my face that I feel that I have to correct what I said in a previous post.
I had argued that with McCain the likely nominee after his Florida victory, that the GOP will die. And I was wrong.
I had argued that since Republicans chose to make a liberal Republican the front runner and by extension, the preferred future President, the GOP no longer cares about conservative principles. And I was wrong.
The GOP as a party of conservative ideas is already dead. The GOP hasn't cared for conservative principles for years now. The heart and soul of the Republican Party is vacant, cold and dark. Not long ago, betrayal killed off most of what was once a vibrant healthy cardiovascular system. But a few stalwarts remained keeping the heart pumping, and then something happened.
Did the Republican Party die when truly conservative candidates couldn't even get enough support to make it to Super Tuesday? Is that the sweet smell of formaldehyde, when the only candidate conservatives could vote for was not too long ago, to the left of Ted Kennedy even?
Yes and yes. The head of the conservative beast has been severed. What remains are the limbs flailing about chaotically, and in vain, trying to regain itself. 'Tis truly a sad funeral, when the so-called 'last best hope' for a conservative candidate, is himself a long-time liberal, who is losing.
All biases and political persuasions aside, this has got to be one of the best political ads ever:
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TAYLOR: I don't know you very well, but I think I know you well enough to believe you have no desire to ever become President of the United States.Here's the source. It's been buzzing around the tubes lately. I'm not certain, but doubtful it's a fake, so I'll do some searching to try and confirm it. By the way, the interview is from just a year and a half ago.
CONGRESSMAN PAUL: That's for sure.
TAYLOR: Even so, many people who know you and revere your work would love to see that. But if you were President, what policies would you seek to implement to make America a freer, safer, fairer, and more prosperous place for its citizens?
CONGRESSMAN PAUL: It's the respect for liberty that is the problem. We don't have enough respect or understanding or confidence in liberty. That is the real problem. To cut back on government, you have to have the people understand the issue of liberty. So, my biggest goal has been in the area of education, as well as this little political effort I am involved in. But oh, I guess I would get rid of the Federal Reserve, get rid of the IRS, bring our troops home, and cut down to only about 20% of what we are spending on the military - those things would bring about a tremendous boom in this country, but it is just not going to happen. [emphasis added]
Tonight was a big win for illegal-immigration amnesty, remorseless socialization of health care, and big-government solutions to global warming...The other quote is right here.
Well, it was nice while it lasted, but the Republican Party seems to be headed for certain death.
It looks like McCain is winning Florida, and it's rumored that Giuliani will endorse McCain. Huckabee is going to be on his way out soon as well, and I don't see any chance of him endorsing anybody but Johnny Maverick.
Pending a shocking and surprising upset in Florida for McCain, which is looking bleaker by the minute, McCain will most likely be the GOP's nomination. And the Republican Party will wither away, and if not, it will cease to stand for conservative principles, rendering it substantively meaningless.
Update: It's been called. McCain wins Florida.
Beyond parody. I cannot honestly come up with anything more PC that utterly misrepresents the facts, while still being technically accurate.
That's Reuters for you. Amazing.
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Special edition...
The 100% 100% Preventable show!
The burst is now available as a podcast! You can download it here.
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From the comments on the Fark thread where I got that child support story:
Marriage in the USA is slowly legislating itself out of existence. There's little to nothing that a man gains from marriage that he cannot have outside of marriage. And people wonder why marriage rates have been plummeting for the past few decades and continue to do so.The rest goes downhill, but what I quoted was I think, spot on. Growing up, I thought of rule of marriage was what my parents had: a strong stable long-lasting relationship that was the foundation of a family. I don't see it that way now. If I see examples like that today, I think they're very lucky, and the exception to the rule. Damn that's depressing.
Since a woman can choose at any time for any reason to end the marriage, and take 1/2 of the cars, houses, and other assets that you worked your whole life to acquire, AS WELL AS 30% of your paycheck each month for the rest of your life, and divorce happens 55-60% of the time, what incentive (for a man) exists to continue the fraudulent act of marriage?
Add to that the large drop in sex after marriage...
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If you had suspicion of moles in your organization, wouldn't you at least want to investigate the matter further? Well that is just not the way the FBI does things, according to this story from a busy blogger:
When she alerted her superiors and the special agent in charge of the investigation about what she found, no one wanted to hear about it. Shortly thereafter, not only was she fired, "her home computer was seized; her family in Turkey was visited by police and threatened with arrest if they did not submit to questioning about an unspecified 'intelligence matter.'"Read the whole thing.
The FBI never gave an explanation for her firing, but three months later admitted that Ms. Edmonds had been correct and... [her] valid complaints were a contributing factor to her dismissal.
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When a child's best interest (determined by a judge) outweighs your rights and responsibilities, pray that's where it stops:
Paternity doesn't count when it comes to a Hunterdon County man's bid to lower child support payments for a child that's not his.I'll admit ambivalence here, because it may be that the guy took the girl as his own, and that any child deserves the best of situations. Still, the man shouldn't have to pay for his ex wife's infidelity and her extramarital decision to risk having a child with another man.
An appeals court upheld a lower court which denied the man's request in 2006 after he said he discovered he was not the father of the 10-year-old girl.
From the WaPo:
In November, the Democratic-led House spent about $89,000 on so-called carbon offsets. This purchase was supposed to cancel out greenhouse-gas emissions from House buildings -- including half of the U.S. Capitol -- by triggering an equal reduction in emissions elsewhere.Well, at least it makes people feel better about the environment. And that's really all that matters considering the environmentalists' willingness to confront China and its exponentially increasing army of smokestacks.
Some of the money went to farmers in North Dakota, for tilling practices that keep carbon buried in the soil. But some farmers were already doing this, for other reasons, before the House paid a cent.
Other funds went to Iowa, where a power plant had been temporarily rejiggered to burn more cleanly. But that test project had ended more than a year before the money arrived.
The House's purchase provides a view into the confusing world of carbon offsets, a newly popular commodity with few rules. Analysts say some offsets really do cause new reductions in pollution. But others seem to change very little.
Actually, I think the only thing that makes this newsworthy is the fact that the establishment Democrats are not supporting the establishment-like Clintons:
Senator Edward M. Kennedy implored Americans on Monday to “reject the counsels of doubt and calculation,” as he extended his endorsement and placed the aura of his family’s name around the presidential candidacy of Senator Barack Obama...Video below the fold...
“He will be a president who refuses to be trapped in the patterns of the past,” Mr. Kennedy said. “He is a leader who sees the world clearly without being cynical. He is a fighter who cares passionately about the causes he believes in, without demonizing those who hold a different view.”
Mr. Kennedy, whose endorsement was aggressively pursued by all the Democratic candidates, praised Mr. Obama’s ability to motivate a new generation of leaders. Not since his brothers, Mr. Kennedy said, has he seen a politician possess the ability to inspire.
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This is old news, but it's circulating on Digg and I haven't really blogged about it, so I might as well. We don't need a national biometric ID card any more now than we did 100 years ago. And this is why:
Sure, he's talking about newly immigrated folks in the clip, but if the state has to make sure you're legal just to get online, or to receive basic services, then we'd all have to be checked. And we'd all have to have that new national ID. If the state licenses aren't tamper-proof enough for immigrants, how are they good enough for others? Tamper-proof is another word for more-expensive-yet-to-be-forged-ID. If people can't provide their Social Security Card and/or birth certificate, then they don't need to be working. And if it turns out to be a forgery? That is what ICE is for.
Oh yeah, ICE isn't doing its job, so lets just make more laws and throw more money at it. Works every time.
And this is why:
A Middletown police officer spent his last day on the job writing tickets for 14 patrol cars that had expired inspection stickers.Awesome. I would've worked double-overtime doing stuff like that.
Cpl. Frank Holden says he was just doing his job.
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Regarding the $800 tax rebates comes another quote from CoyoteBlog:
Far be it for me to presume to tell people how to spend their own money (what do I look like, a Congressman?) but here is a bit of advice: Save it. Because this is not a grant, it is a loan.Bonus:* Also via CoyoteBlog, individual sovereignty: New York style.
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Is it me, or is this a little too Orwellian?
Obese and overweight adults in England could be paid to lose weight under plans being considered by the Government. The new strategy to tackle poor eating habits and sedentary lifestyles includes the suggestion that people should receive financial rewards or shopping vouchers for achieving and maintaining a healthy weight.Via InstaGlenn.
The £372 million strategy reiterates a target set last year to cut the proportion of overweight and obese children by 2020 to levels in 2000.
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An amazing story of a woman who had to choose:
Four months into her pregnancy, Lorraine Allard was devastated to learn she was in the advanced stages of cancer.Read the whole thing.
Doctors advised her to have an abortion and start chemotherapy straight away.
Instead, with steadfast courage, she insisted on waiting long enough to give her unborn son a chance to survive, telling her husband Martyn: "If I am going to die, my baby is going to live."
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A pretty good & quick read, and as far as what's on the minds of conservatives, I'd say he's got it down:
Why aren’t economic, social and political conservatives pulling together during this primary season the way they have in the past? To understand, let’s imagine that we had three conservatives in the room with us — and that they said exactly what was on their minds.Go read it, and judge for yourself not only the viability of Frum's advice, but if it'd work if earnestly applied. He's right on one part; we conservatives could use a little more togetherness right now, but the half-liberal, half-conservative candidates we have currently share a lot of the blame, not to mention the missteps and betrayals from the Bush administration. I fear the only thing that can save the conservative coalition this election is a dues ex machina.
This is too good not to share:
It's pretty obvious this is the guy Rush is talking about here.
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A Utah state House panel yesterday gave its approval to a proposal that would impose a statewide ban on ticket quotas. Representative Neil Hansen (D-Ogden) brought back the bill which had passed the full House last year, but was blocked by Ogden Police Chief Jon Greiner -- who also happens to be a state senator serving on the Senate Judiciary, Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Committee. Hansen hopes his legislation will clear the Senate roadblock this time.So where do the police stand?
"This issue is not a new issue," Hansen said. "All this (bill) is doing is putting in statute that they cannot tell their officers to go out and write a certain number of tickets within a specific time.... It more or less lets law enforcement go out and do their job."
Hansen testified that officers had contacted his office to complain that they were under continual pressure to write traffic tickets instead of warnings. To avoid the word "quota," police management used the term "performance based evaluation." Hansen's bill would prohibit municipalities, counties, sheriffs and police chiefs from requiring officers to issue a certain number of tickets in a given amount of time.
Police officials testified against a ban on a practice that they denied has ever existed.I see.
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Lawmakers in South Dakota have introduced some good legislation. Hopefully it passes:
A bill introduced Tuesday would bar the regents from outlawing firearms on state university campuses.The news is skimpy on the details so I'll do some googling. So now it's Utah and potentially South Dakota (am I missing any?). I would like to see this become a trend.
HB1261 says the universities cannot expel or discipline anyone who legally carries a gun onto campus.
Introduced by: Representatives Brunner, Cutler, Howie, Jerke, Kirkeby, Koistinen, Noem, Olson (Betty), Rhoden, Steele, and Van Etten and Senators Schmidt (Dennis), Apa, Greenfield, Kloucek, Maher, McNenny, and Napoli
FOR AN ACT ENTITLED, An Act to regulate the right to carry a firearm on the campuses of public institutions of higher education.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA:
Section 1. No public institution of higher education may regulate or restrict the right to carry or possess a firearm in accordance with state law. No public institution of higher education may expel, dismiss, or penalize any person who carries or possesses a firearm in accordance with state law. However, any public institution of higher education may require that any firearm in a campus dormitory of a public institution of higher education not in a person's immediate possession be stored in a locked gun safe.
Section 2. For the purposes of this Act only, the term, public institution of higher education, means any public postsecondary educational institution under the Board of Regents or any public postsecondary technical institute under the Board of Education.
Sailor Curt at the anti-gun rally, who were outnumbered by the pro-gun side:
Several of the speakers were very, very angry and one of them played the "guilt" card, telling us how ashamed gun rights supporters should be for insulting them by daring to be present at their public demonstration.
Yeah, that is spooky.
Apparently, it's better than voting for the GOP nominee, whoever that may be.
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And into a study the media can propagate as scientific evidence.
It would be nice if these "journalists" would link to their source once and a while; and you'd think it'd be especially the case coming from a "Web Producer".
So a citizen went through the security check at the airport with his gun. Apparently realizing his error, turns around and hands it over to the TSA guys. The good-intentioned man then gets charged with a misdemeanor. The news report continues:
This latest breach at Reagan National has air travelers disappointed but not discouraged. Passenger Rob Padgett said, “Their security is tight, it's tighter than it's ever been, so whatever the number of incidents is, it's not many, so, I trust it and I feel safe.”So a good guy has in one instance not only proven security to be faulty, he has disarmed himself. And that makes it feel safe? This kind of backwards thinking has got to end.
Well, I'm not sure... yet. But here's what I am sure of:
It is quite stupid to vote for the greater evil as a means of protest, in hope that your party will learn something. Fact is, parties have been not learning anything for the past 200 years. Why else do we have such a broad ideological range of candidates? Because issues don't sell in America; style and persona does. What else explains the Huckaboom? GOP primary voters don't typically vote for big nanny-state liberals, but they sure did in Iowa.
As for me, I focus on the issues. Not just one, but several that are important to me. Which is why I'm leaning toward Mitt Romney, a bitter-sweet candidate strong on the economy and defense, shady on gun rights, and questionable on other social policies since he'll say virtually anything for a vote. So why in hell would I support Mitt Romney?
Because we rarely get exactly what we want in a candidate, so we either play it smart and vote for those most compatible while lobbying him and the party to become more in line with your views. Or you can help ensure more life-time appointed federal judges very similar to Ruth Bader Ginsburg. -Yeah, that sounds like a plan.
I'm not saying I'm supporting Mitt as of now, but I am saying I could. I don't trust him when it comes to gun rights or abortion, but I do trust him on the economy, immigration, and defense. And that's more of my trust than any other candidate has right now.
Just how draconian the intervention is ebbs and flows from decade to decade, but the reality of the long-term trend is undeniable: more taxes, more regulation, more bureaucracies, more regimentation, more public ownership, and ever less autonomy for private decision-making. The federal budget is nearly $3 trillion per year, which is three times what it was in Reagan's second term. Just since Bush has been in office, federal intervention in every area of our lives has exploded, from the nationalization of airline security to the heavy regulation of the medical sector to the centralized control of education.
With "free markets" like this, who needs socialism?
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In this weeks edition:
Slavery in Florida! Wait 'til you hear who it was!
100% Preventable! More children sacrificed to open borders!
Deporting criminals? Are you sure it's a good thing?
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Some people have it, others apparently, do not.
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Well, I'm glad the vote for Huckabee all but destroyed his chance at the nomination. Naturally, I am quite upset about Fred's performance, as I had been throughout his campaign, or lack of one. Given the realities, I fully expect Thompson to withdraw soon, that is unless Huckabee stays in and he really plans on helping out McCain.
As for McCain, I would rather sharpen pencils with my teeth than see him as the GOP nominee, but I do take comfort in the fact that he is somewhat better than Romney on gun rights, not much, but it's something. Then again, Romney is far superior to McCain on economic policy and immigration, a skill and mindset sorely needed in the years to come.
Who knows, should a pleasant decision come down from the Supreme Court in a few months, gun bans and gun control may become untouchable for any future presidents. But that's wishful thinking. I guess I'm just thinking out loud.
And if he doesn't, the media just may.
Some context: You may recall the NYT story about 121 Iraq and Afghanistan vets involved in homicides after returning home; the same story which sensationalized these military tragedies that occur with less frequency than of the general population.
Okay, go read it.
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Liberals will say that the comparison is unfair, because Mr. Bush is so much worse than Mr. Clinton ever was. Yes, Mr. Clinton may have been imperfect, but Mr. Bush -- whom people on the far left routinely compare to Hitler -- is evil. This of course destroys the liberal stereotype even more eloquently than the data. The very essence of intolerance is to dehumanize the people with whom you disagree by asserting that they are not just wrong, but wicked.
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I haven't really had time this week to think through the news and provide any meaningful or insightful commentary, coupled with the fact that I picked up a nasty cold, I frankly don't feel like it. That's how it'll probably be for the next few days.
Nonetheless, interesting stories are interesting stories, so for your reading and viewing pleasure:
The NYT faithfully does its part for the anti-war crowd.
Global Warming also causes cold weather, just so you know.
The nanny-state protecting you from idling cars.
Voter disenfranchisement top priority for Democrats; for Hillary, not so much.
Surprise: Chris Mathews has a mancrush on Obama.
AP: writing the news of tomorrow, today.
And a video for you internet junkies (language warning).
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Unfortunately, I share a religion with these well-intentioned people. To whom I ask, wouldn't the logical thing be not to watch, and if you can't seem to do that, stop going?
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It's actually a few days old, but I just came across it.
Coyote Blog:
People who owe their jobs to the government are always a lot more vigilent about protecting their turf than they are about providing service.
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I don't know why, but I thought this story was interesting. Probably because I've never thought of a mayor having an identical twin, or stealing a puppy, or filing false police reports, or all of the above.
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Good, and about time:
Asked his opinion of the Second Amendment and the Solicitor General’s request that the DC Circuit Court remand the appeal back to the trial court for “fact-finding”, the lawyer turned Senator from Tennessee said the Bush Administration was “overlawyering” and stated that he opposed remand and that the case should move forward to the U.S. Supreme Court.More at RedState.com.
